180 color and 37 b/w illustrations

professor emeritus at the University of Amsterdam

Christine Mehring is associate professor of Art History and the College at the University of Chicago

former art critic of The New York Times

figural imagery

North of Dixie: Civil Rights Photography Beyond the South William Blake 180 color and 37 b/wMark Speltz With a preface by Deborah Willis The history of the civil rights movement is commonly illustrated with well known photographs from Birmingham, Montgomery, and Selmaleaving the visual story of the movement outside the South remaining to be told. In North of Dixie, historian Mark Speltz shines a light past the most iconic photographs of the era to focus on images of everyday activists who fought campaigns against segregation, police